Cliffhanger was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action hero Sylvester Stallone; this time thanks to director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2 and Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing high-mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title promises; and there's a doozy of an airplane stunt that was later reprised; with modifications; in Air Force One. Stallone; looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves; is a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks (headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a U.S. Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies (played by the Italian Dolomites) with millions of bucks. --Jim Emerson